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| Subject: | Re: CANADIAN LEOPARD 1A1 |  |
| Date: | Aug 30, 2002 |
| From: | Paul Roberts | |
Normand Lajoie wrote:
>I have found a picture of German Leopards 1A1 on loan from the German army. is there any ones out there with more INFO on this ??? I would need the Era and duration of USe before we got the Leo 1A4's in... Colours and markings...??
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>ANY ONES!!!
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The Canadian Forces magazine Sentinel vol. 1977 NO 3 has a detailed
story on these Leos. (Christ, my basement must be the elephant's
graveyard of obscure rubbish for me to still have a copy of this...).
Oct. 15 1976 Canada announces the purchase of the Leo C1s from Krauss
Maffei with deliveries to start in 1978. In the meantime we borrowed 35
Leo 1A2s from German stock. The borrowed Leos were handed over to the
RCD in Jan/Feb 1977 and stayed until the C1s were on strength. The
amazing thing is that having had the Leos for only 16 weeks the RCD
crews went out and won their first CAT (Canadian Army Trophy - the NATO
tank gunnery competition) for the first time since 1967. They beat, in
order, Germany, Belgium, the UK, the Netherlands and the US. They had
only 9 days of live firing before the competition.
As for modelling details, as I said they are 1A2s with the thermal wrap
on the 105mm L7. Overall colour was a monochrome scheme of the German
Olive of the time. Dunkelgrun greyed with a little bit of white seems
like a good match for the colour photos I have from the magazine.
Markings:
- White outlined black maple leaf on both sides of the turret about 2
feet directly behind, and with the tip of the leaf on the centreline of,
the stereo rangefinder.
- There is a red/white Canadian flag about 3.5"x6" just inboard of the
drivers side headlight and a NATO standard armour symbol in the black in
the same position inboard of the port headlight.
- Just below the flag is a smaller 1.5"x3" (?) red outline of a rectangle.
- On the opposite side of the glasis is a small symbol that looks like a
miniature guideon in red and white that is about 1"x3", but I can't tell
what it is.
- I suspect that the flag and tactical symbol are repeated on the rear
of the hull over the tracks, but I can't see to be sure.
- Hanging on the stowage bin on starboard rear quarter of the turret is
a competition sign that is in two parts. Both are about 18" square,
black, with a letter (A, B, or C) in the middle of the outboard one and
some indistinct triangular symbol on the inboard square. These two
markings are in yellow.
There, that enough?? =:-)
--
Paul Roberts
tankmodeler@rogers.com
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